Mecamylamine
"Mecamylamine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A nicotinic antagonist that is well absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract and crosses the blood-brain barrier. Mecamylamine has been used as a ganglionic blocker in treating hypertension, but, like most ganglionic blockers, is more often used now as a research tool.
Descriptor ID |
D008464
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MeSH Number(s) |
D02.455.849.575.781.500
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